Dear Bob:

Let me tell you about how our business started at the end of 1994.

I was working in an automotive parts department, and didn’t like the direction my life was going. So Cathy (my significant other) and I, decided to try a different direction.

We bought our first bounce house, which at that time was about $3800.00 for a 15x15 jungle bouncer.  At the time, I had the use of only a car, so I drove down to a manufacturer in Los Angeles, and crammed the bouncer in the trunk of my 1992 Chevy Impala.

We rented this bouncer out a few times and decided we would buy another bouncer,  then another, and  pretty soon a year later we had about 8 of them in our inventory, and we were still working out of our house. A couple of years later, we decided to see if there was a convention for the inflatable industry. We found the IAAPA Show, which at that time was held in Orlando Florida.

We met an interesting guy from this inflatable company that actually gave us his time and attention and really explained about his company and efforts to improve the industry.  His name was Bob Field. We were really impressed that he made the effort in explaining how the inflatable industry was going to take off. Cathy and I decided that he was “the man” and the one who convinced us to try some different inflatables other than bouncers.

We bought an obstacle course “Roswell Scary”, a 22-ft Fire Truck Slide, a 3-Lane Bungee Run and a
14-ft Fire Truck slide. We now own over 130 inflatables.  Probably $250,000 dollars of Cutting Edge Creations items alone and we’ve never regretted a thing.

Having Cutting Edge Creations inflatable items, gets me an unimaginable amount of business. I have contracts and rights to a lot of large and small in my area. One of my prestigious clients is NASCAR. For them I introduced the Cutting Edge Creations 30-ft Double-Lane Race Car Slide. This has been a huge success.  I also have the California Rodeo, the largest Rodeo in California. I also really focus on large company events. We also service organizations like HSBC, Pebble Beach Golf Company, Reno Rodeo, California International Air Shows, Infineon Raceway, Laguna Seca Raceway, and the list goes on.

Festivals are a huge part of our business. Cutting Edge Creations has a large variety of inflatable designs that offer customers many choices to pick from. Festivals demand variety for all age groups. We have made sure that we inventory a large assortment of inflatable products that meet the needs all age groups. Of course, we still do our backyard parties at client’s homes.

The real success of our company has been our attention  organization of our products, maintaining clean inflatables and a trained staff that is attentive and people friendly.

  Our biggest month of the year is grad month -  June.  This year we serviced over 78 schools for their grad night parties and the last day of school events. The interactive market hasn’t been any hotter than right now. We offer our customers many items such as Bungee Runs,  Velcro Walls, Climbing Walls (both inflatable and hard walls), Mechanical Bulls, Motorized Toilet & Bathtub Racers, Video Games, Airbrush Tattoos, and even several Photo Booths that kids just love.
We advertise our business and services in many ways. One of our most visual means of advertising is our fleet of trucks and vans. We have had Cutting Edge Creations sign division provide some of the digital photo vehicle wraps for our trucks and vans. Whether we are pulling up to an event or driving down the road, we get noticed. This makes the phones ring in our office with new clients wanting info about our company and products. This is the most economic way to advertise business. You get exposure all over town simply by driving your vehicle. This is better than any phone book or magazine advertising, because once you ;pay to have this done to your company vehicle, it continues to bring you the advertising exposure you need without the monthly advertising bills.

   So I give my thanks to Cutting Edge Creations, on their company and the continuing effort that they put out on keeping one step ahead of every other manufacturing company in this industry.  They seem to be the most creative and their ideas are always original, unlike most of the other inflatable manufacturers out there.

Cutting Edge Creations seem to always think outside the box. If it wasn’t for one hour of Bob’s time in a corner of the IAAPA show in the Orlando Convention Center, what seems like a long time ago,  we wouldn’t be as big of an operation as we are today.       

Thanks Cutting Edge Creations!!!

- Jud Schultz & Cathy Croft

Let’s Party can be reached at (831) 757-4781, by email at judjumps@aol.com , visit them online at www.letspartysalinas.com and soon at  www.letspartyreno.com coming out later this year!